George Lvoff

Prince Gueorgui Lvoff was President of the Provisional Government of Russia from March 23 to July 7, 1917.

Son of Prince Yevgeny Vladimirovich Lvov (1831-1878) and his wife Varvara Alexeïevna Mosolova (1828-1924), he was born into an old noble family descended from the princes of Yaroslavl. Soon after his birth, his parents moved to the family home in Popovka, Aleksin region, near Tula. He graduated from Moscow University in law, then worked in the civil service until 1893. He participated and then became famous in campaigns to help peasants during the famine of 1891. He joined the Democratic Constitutional Party , although tempted by the Octobrists, it is a moderate liberal, and Freemasonry, participating in the creation of the first Masonic lodges in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. In 1901, he married Yulia Alexeïevna Bobrinskaïa (1867-1903), daughter of Prince Alexeï Pavlovich Bobrinsky and his wife Alexandra Alexeïevna Pisareva.

In 1906, he won a seat in the elections for the First Duma. A ministerial post was offered to him in 1905 by the Witte government, but he refused, wishing to observe whether or not the Czar kept his promises - relating to the October manifesto. He became president of the "pan-Russian" union of zemstvos in 1914, then the following year, head of the union of zemstvos and member of the zemgor, a joint committee of the union of zemstvos and the union of towns that helped supply the military with tents for the wounded of the First World War.

After the February revolution and the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II, Lvov became president of the council of ministers on March 15, 1917, because he was the only one to reach a consensus among the cadets between the left and the right, then head of the Russian provisional government on March 23. It is, however, Milioukov who is really in charge. Unable to muster enough support, he resigned in July 1917, after having fired, or at least allowed the crowd to be fired, in favor of his Minister of Justice, Alexander Kerensky. Living in Tyumen, Lvov was arrested after the Bolsheviks seized power. Incarcerated in Yekaterinburg, he managed to escape and settled in Paris, where he spent the rest of his life.

In 1919, in Paris, a Russian National Committee functioned, made up of Prince Lvov and Maklakov, which served as an intermediary between the various Russian governments and generals fighting against the Bolsheviks and the Peace Conference.